I am a Linux kernel developer (working for Red Hat) by day and an anti-spam activist by night. For some values of "day" and "night", of course. In my spare time I hike mountains and play with radios (and radio software).

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Rik van Riel

OPW Round 12 small tasks:

Cause the system to swap, and use ftrace and the trace points in mm/page_alloc.c and mm/vmscan.c to determine how long it takes to allocate (and free) pages.

Repeat the same exercise when the system is under heavy filesystem read IO, and when doing lots of filesystem writes (enough to fill up memory).